February 26th, 2009
Looks like Liverpool is up to their Champions league magic again. Their 1- 0 result over Real Madrid has all of Spain wondering, if they do in fact get past Real in the second leg, who will be their next victim from La Liga.
Could FC Barcelona get a rematch from a few years back with everthing on the line?
We will all have to wait and see.
Liverpool manager , Rafeal Benítez, admitts that it is just one game and the team will have to play better the second time around but for now they deserve to enjoy this moment for it was a pleasant game to the eye.
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February 23rd, 2009
Lyon donné perdant contre le FC Barcelona à 63 % par les lecteurs de l’Equipe.fr!
en tous les cas les commentaires fusent sur le site… A voir si Karim Benzema sera à la hauteur de Messi, le commentaire de l’entraineur de L’olympique ne rassure en rien : ” Le FC Barcelona est la meilleure équipe du moment”… A suivre sur l’Equipe.fr et Marca.com
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May 13th, 2008
The 21st of May will be a magic day. I’m not referring to the last tour of Bruce Springsteen or anything about magicians, I’m talking about football, about european football (well in this occasion, in English football). The 21st of May is going to be the major event of the European Champions League, the final! This year’s edition will take place in Moscow.
The summer is really near, you are starting to feel that spring is finishing, you are looking forward the summer holidays, and you are looking forward traveling… now is your occasion to combine tourism and football at the maximum level. Visit Moscow, a very nice city, and enjoy the Champions League final.
Chelsea and Manchester United will fight the second round of a combat (Manchester United won the first round (Premier League)). The best teams in Europe will offer a spectacular match to decide who brings to England the cup. If Manchester United wins the match will be the 3rd Champions cup, if on the other hand Chelsea wins the match it will be the first. “Chelski” will play at home, with the presence of Roman Abramovich and his compatriots. Abramovich is extremely happy, because after 5 years of spending huge amounts of money in building a team finally he has succeed in achieving the Champions League final, now we’ll see if Chelski can defeat the Premier League’s champion. Wayne Rooney vs. Ricardo Carvalho, Cristiano Ronaldo vs. Essien, Drogba vs. Ferdinand, Scholes vs. Lampard, Cech vs. Van der Sar,… The best players of the world in the best match of the world, buy tickets!
May 9th, 2008
Few days before the opening of the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland and just looking at the Euro Cup history it is easy to understand why it has become so popular. The European Championships were first held in 1960 and were originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup. Initially it was hard to get many teams to compete, but by 1968 the tournament when it changed its name to the European Football Championship becomes very popular.
Since its creation the team winners have been: 1960 USSR, 1964 Spain, 1968 Italy, 1972 Germany, 1976 Czechoslovakia, 1980 Germany, 1984 France, 1988 Holland, 1992 Denmark, 1996 Germany, 2000 France and 2004 Greece.Let’s go now through some remarkable facts along the 12 championships played until now. 1960: Spain was eliminated from the tournament when General Francisco Franco’s government refused to let the Spanish team travel to Moscow. 1964: Largest crowd in championship history — 125,000 at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in the final match (Spain-USSR). 1968: Name was changed from the Nations Cup to the European Championship. 1976: Czechoslovakia won on penalties. 1980: The final field was increased to eight teams from four. 1984: Spanish ‘keeper Luis Arconada knocked the first goal over his own line. 1988:Only three of the eight finalists from ‘84 qualified, including France. 1992: U.N. sanctions forced out war-torn Yugoslavia. 1996: First Golden Goal in a major international championship. 2000: Sylvain Wiltord shocked Italy by scoring the game 3 minutes into injury time when the Italians were leading the whole match with David Trezeguet scoring the Golden Goal winner 13 minutes to win.
May 8th, 2008
As for all sports competitions related statistics are very appreciate because they permit to know exact records and any other details of all participating players. Basketball is one of the important sports where players can achieve different records in each match and each season. As any other leagues in the world, ACB Basketball League in Spain, where a lot of foreign players (specially from USA) play in each team of this category, the statistics are quite relevant. We are going to have a quick look to these statistics refereed to Play-Off of this competition.All figures refers to one single match of Play-Off. Points: 43 – David Rusell (Estudiantes, 1987)3 Points Shooting: 10 – Cicho Sibilio ( FC Barcelona, 1986)Blocks: 8 – George Singleton (Manresa, 1994) and Derrich Alston (Manresa, 1998)Rebounds: 21 – Arvydas Sabonis (Real Madrid, 1993) and Fernando Romay (Real Madrid, 1987)Steals: 14 – Andres Jimenez (Joventut, 1985)Assists: 13 – Michael Anderson (CS San Fernando, 1996), Elmer Bennett (Tau, 2001) and Andre Turner (CS San Fernando, 1996)Another important individual title along the regular season is the MVP (Most Value Player) and the last five winners have been: Juan Carlos Navarro (Barcelona, 2003/04 and 2005/06 Seasons), Luis Scola (Tau, 2004/05 Seasons) and Marc Gasol (Akasvayu, 2007/08 Season).
